From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:09:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Fwd: FC: EU eavesdropping on Iridium satellite phone system
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any reactions? some of my newspaper colleagues are thinking of writing
about this...


>Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:12:45 -0800 (PST)
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
>Subject: FC: EU eavesdropping on Iridium satellite phone system
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>Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:08:00 +0100
>From: Erich Moechel <erich-moechel@quintessenz.at>
>To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, declan@well.com
>Subject: EU eavesdropping on Iridium System
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>
>It is really a ghastly paper, we obtained. It is the first ever "Enfopol" 
>paper that leaked out from United European Police Working Group. 
>Not even the EU's STOA-commission that brought Echelon in2 EU-
>Parliament this spring was given the predecessor 2 "Enfopol 98"
>cu
>me 
>
>The European Surveillance Union
>
>Erich Moechel 20.11.98 
>
>Europol Seeks a Broad Structure for Tapping Mobile 
>Communications 
>
>Austrian officials' appetite for coldly broadening their authority to 
>monitor private citizens is in no way a unique case in Europe. 
>
>As a Europol internal document obtained by Telepolis shows, 
>massive attempts on the part of European police forces are 
>underway to acquire the ability to eavesdrop on the Iridium system, 
>currently in a sensitive stage of expansion. 
>
>The document entitled "Enfopol 98" from the group "Police 
>Cooperation" dated September 3, 1998, deals with the "observation 
>of telecommunications" and primarily addresses the so-called 
>satellite-supported personal communication systems (S-PCS), but 
>also the Internet. On the recommendation of the European Union, a 
>list of points desired by the European police was drawn up as a 
>"Draft for a Recommended Resolution" in order to simplify the 
>passage of the resolution. The terrestrial gateway stations are to 
>provide comprehensive access via Iridium and other Mobile Satellite 
>Services (MSS) since they are "collective and simple locations for 
>monitoring solutions." 
>
>http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/1667/1.html
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